Today our practice is to work with mantra! Below I’ve listed some mantras to give you an idea of a mantra you could use as part of your practice. Please look through the mantras below and listen to which one speaks to you.
Today we will practice One Point Meditation with mantra. Much like we did on day 1, but this time your one point will be the mantra. If you already have a personal mantra that you feel deeply connected to, please use that one. My teacher Arora says, “Hum it, listen to it or simply contemplate it.” Some of these mantras are chanted in song (a few examples below), these you could play and listen to with while in your practice or try it with a walking meditation. Allow the practice to guide you instead of you guiding the practice. When working with mantra, it often will come to you vs. you trying to find it. Allow this organic process to begin today.
Mantras
Here is the one we used yesterday: Just breathe, it’s okay, I love you, Everything is okay , I am still here
OM - the universal sound
So Hum - I am that which is everything within the universe
Om Ananda - bliss, joy in everything
Love
Peace
Grace
I am loving kindness
All love resides within my heart.
I deeply and completely love and accept myself.
I nurture my inner child. I am wanted and loved.
I live in balance, in a state of gracefulness and gratitude.
I am connected with other human beings.
I accept things as they are.
I am peaceful.
I am divinely guided
I trust the process of life
Om Gam Ganapatayai Namah - The primary Ganesh (elephant deiti) for clearing obstacles and awaking consciousness
Aham Prema - invoke the living energy of the highest Love within our hearts and lives
Lokaah Samasthaah Sukhino Bhavantu - A mantra to express loving-kindness (here is a song)
Om Mani Padme Hum - This powerful mantra, which has deep roots in India and in Tibet, is one of the most commonly chanted mantras in the world. Its meaning, as translated by the Dalai Lama, is: “The jewel is in the lotus, or praise to the jewel in the lotus.” Beautiful song here
Gayatri Mantra - O Divine mother, our hearts are filled with darkness. Please make this darkness distant from us and promote illumination within us. (here is a song)
Have a beautiful joyous day!
Much Love,
Ange